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Discrimination, Negative Expectations and Community Connectedness and their Relation to Sleep Disturbance in Sexual and Gender Minorities
Botea, Mihai (2024) Discrimination, Negative Expectations and Community Connectedness and their Relation to Sleep Disturbance in Sexual and Gender Minorities.
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| Abstract: | Sleep disturbances are detrimental to physical as well as psychological health (Dolsen et al., 2022). Research shows that sexual and gender minorities are more prone to sleep disturbance (Butler et al., 2019; Campbell et al., 2023; Dolsen et al., 2022; Gibbs & Fusco, 2023) and this was linked to minority stress theory (Caceres et al., 2022; Belloir et al., 2024; Segovia & Sparks, 2023). The current study aims to investigate whether (1) sexual minorities, gender minorities and gender and sexual minorities experience sleep disorders to a different extent; (2) whether the relationship between discrimination and sleep disturbance is moderated by community connectedness; (3) whether the relationship between negative expectations and sleep disturbance is moderated by community connectedness. The study employed an online questionnaire on an availability sample (n=60). Despite experiencing unique stressors, no differences were found between minority groups. Discrimination showed no correlation with sleep disturbance. Lastly, community connectedness did not moderate the relationship between negative expectations and sleep disturbance. However, in the simple linear model sleep disturbance showed an association with negative expectations. This was not the case in the more complex interaction model. Given that the study was underpowered, this warrants further research. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/102816 |
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